{"id":510305,"date":"2025-10-18T21:02:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510305\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T21:02:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T21:02:16","slug":"first-asian-hornet-nest-discovered-in-northern-ireland-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/510305\/","title":{"rendered":"First Asian hornet nest discovered in Northern Ireland removed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Asian hornet nest discovered in the Dundonald area of Belfast has been removed.<\/p>\n<p>The Northern Ireland Environment Agency(NIEA) described the process on Saturday as \u201csafe and controlled\u201d and said its officers worked with a \u201csuitably trained\u201d pest control company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">They also received advice from the UK Animal and Plant Health Agency and had \u201con-the-ground support\u201d from an official with the National Biodiversity Data Centre in Waterford.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The agency said surveillance will continue in the area and urged \u201ccontinued vigilance\u201d from the public and the beekeeping community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The insects were first spotted by a member of the public and reported on October 10.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">It\u2019s the first nest of its kind discovered in Northern Ireland, and NIEA say Asian hornets pose a \u201csignificant threat\u201d to honeybees, native insects, pollinators and local ecosystems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An Asian hornet nest discovered in the Dundonald area of Belfast has been removed. The Northern Ireland Environment&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5011],"tags":[1144,76282,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-510305","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-northern-ireland","8":"tag-northern-ireland","9":"tag-place-northern-ireland","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115397194298940327","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=510305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}